Graduate student Guillaume Urtecho (Kosuri group) is one of three UCLA graduate students to receive a prestigious 2018 MBI Teaching Excellence Award. The inaugural MBI Roy & Dorothy John/Fred Eiserling […]

We are sad to report that alumna Catherine Leetola passed away at the age of 34 on December 28, 2018, after a courageous two-year cancer battle. Catherine was born January […]

Two giants in the science of electron cryo-microscopy were awarded the 2018 Glenn Seaborg Medal in recognition of their crucial contributions to the field. Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser (University of […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a fellow of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences. A UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering, Kaner […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P Weiss Groups), an ETH Zürich postdoctoral fellow, receives the 2018 Norma Stoddart Prize.  Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart presented the award at Nakatsuka’s Stoddart Lecture […]

Garg group members undergraduate student Melinda Nguyen and PhD student Bryan Simmons named 2019 Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation Scholars. 2019 Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation Scholars (MBCF) Scholars is […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 12 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on December 4, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads helped make the 2018 Exploring Your Universe event a huge success. At the November 4, 2018, event on the UCLA campus, […]